Improvement in match compositions



"STATES PATENT 7 JAMES. F. BAfBc'ocK, WILLIAM-A. LEONARD, Ann EDWARD B.oR Nir, or

, Toall whom it may concern:

- BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS. I

.immvmm m mA'a el-l COMFOSITIONSQ Specification forming part of LettersPatent No. 186,953, dated Marc-h 18, 1873.

v paring negatives,) and a plate is dipped into Be it known that we,JAMES F. BABOOGK, the bath, and redip'ped as the composition- WILLIAM A.ELEQNARD, and EDWARD B. sets, untilasuificientlythickcoatingis-formcd-.- I ORANE, all of Boston, in the county of Suf- Thenthe plate is put by for the coating to folk and-,State of Massachusetts,have inventdry thoroughly, which may take from a week ed an ImprovedMatch Composition;- and we to ten .11 ys. The coating is then peeled offI those skilled in the art to. practice it.

do hereby declare that the following is a defrornthe'plate, and isrolled and then cut inscription of our invention su'flicientto enable tostrips. hose strips are pressed, and are then ready for; application ofa the friction- In making fuses forlighting lamps, (the fuse matchcompositions.

being "attached to 'the; lamp and connected In. pressing: each stripwepreferto use a.

- with mechanism,

by which, by movement of mold,by pressure'inwhich one side or edge alever, the tip ,of -the fuse .is ignited at a of thestrip is formed witharow of serrations, point where it willinflame the wick, thefuseand'ithe other sidewith a recess rectangular being also. fed bythelever,) it is customary in section, wth "a narrow groove. extendingto usea strip of paperqor a tape as a backing downffrom :each bottomangle of the recess. or foundation to which'to apply the match p'Into'thisrecess' the match composition is uni composition. v -f-forml'ypressed (the composition filling the For various reasons such fuses'havenot narrowzslitsor grooves, and being thereby provedf much,'.'if any,practical value as jbctte retained in the recess,) the outer 8111f.lamp-lig ters,"and our invention has referface bfgthis-composltion andthe adjacent sur' ence to the formation of a new composition fa'ceiii-the collodiou-composition strip being I for making a fuse, by whichformation we; preferably formedto a. curved shape in crossproduce afusewhich will burn with sufi'icie'nt section;i and such curved surfacebeing finally preferably molded into "the i intensity andlength of timeat the point pro covers by a coating of collodion that makes jectedbeyond thefusebe, to insure ignition a uniform surface and renders itimpervious. of the wick end whether suchend be freshly Thejgum m thecomposition impartsth trimmed or in a charred condition. 1 1113513){body and rigidity, and renders the This, composition consists ofpyroxyline stri p' -less inflammable than the .collodion so mixed withsome resinous or other, inflam- *th'atwhen the end of thestrip is igniteit mable orgummy substance less combustible qburns surely butslowly.Thgoil in the than the pyroxyline, such composition being position-1sto'lessen. the brittleness.

'orm of a thin lThe serr ations form thefed-tee'th, by onnarrow strip,to-one side of which is applied. .gagement with which a suitable pawlcfi'ects a match composition that, will ignite by fi-ic the feed off thestrip, 7 y tional contact.1 a Thcstfipfbeing, thug made'and applied toOur invention consists primcrilyinthis -a..s'clf-'l. ghting lampmechanism, the striker composition, eithermade into afuse-stri'p by.hycontact wlth the friction-match composiitself 'or by applicationto-other material, one tionmstantlyign tes it, and the flame extends,surface :being coated with a frictionmatch the body of the. strip, andthence to the composition- I wick of the lamp, the projected part of theT0 produce this composition we prefer to. strip burning slowly, butintensely n h t proceed as follows: We first dissolve four insure theignitiono the, wick whatever may hundred and'eighty grains of collodioncotbe-the condition the eof,'providing only that ton in ether andalcohol, (as in making colloit be in position to. be inflamed. dion,)'and then mix with the solution two Although we have thus describedthe'best 1 hundred grains of gum. copal and eighty -methpd now known tous of forming the comgrains of camphor, with a small amount of positionand the match, the process and-corn olive-oil. The mixture being'rendereduniposition may be greatly varied, it being the formly 'liquidi's place in 'a bath, (such, for essentlal of our invention only to usea colloinstance, as is used 1) photographersmpredion composition the.formationof a match tacit. serrations, substantially as describe v Weclaim-- i I JAS. F. BAB 00K.

- '1. A match composition, consisting of py- WM. A. LEONARD. roxyline,(pure or .mixed,) having applied to 1 'EDW. B.- CRANE.

the whole or a part of its surface an ordinary friction-matchcomposition. v Witnesses:

' 2. The fuse-strip or match made of the com- FRANCIS GOULD,

position and for medinto s apobymolding, Ms W. FROTHINGHAM'.

substantially as described.

or, fuse strip to be ignited by frictional coI 3. The compositionfuse-strip, molded with 1

